World Cup Semi Finals Live Match Chat
Welcome to World Cup Semi Finals Live Match Chat. We are down to crunch time for the four remaining teams. They say the semi-finals is the cruellest round to exit a tournament, so all four sides will be determined to reach a World Cup Final and take a step closer to the ultimate prize.
The World Cup has turned into a European Championship in effect with just France, Belgium, England and Croatia remaining.
Tuesday’s semi between France and Belgium is likely to be the more entertaining spectacle of the two matches with the likes of Griezmann, Mbappe & Pogba lining up vs Lukaku, Hazard & KDB.
This is the fifth time France have reached the semi-final stage, while Belgium have only reached this stage once before, in 1986.
Wednesday sees England appear in a World Cup semi-final for the first time since 1990. Gareth Southgate’s youthful squad is the youngest at the World Cup and while they have taken advantage of a kind draw to get to this stage, there is growing belief that 52 years of hurt may be coming to an end! This is only the third time England have reached the last four.
England’s opponents will be spot-kick champs Croatia who have come through two successive penalty shoot-outs to reach the last four. The Croats have reached the semis just once before, in 1998 and remain heavily reliant on their midfield duo of Modric and Rakitic.
From a fantasy point of view we have 5 free transfers for this round and we can now own a maximum of six players from any one team.
THE GAMES IN FULL
Tuesday 10 July
France vs Belgium (7pm)
Wednesday 11th July
England vs Croatia (7pm)
So that you have them to hand in one place here’s a reminder of the substitution rules, transfer allotment, wildcard and boosters. AKA the rules…
SUBSTITUTIONS
TRANSFERS
Keep track of all the action, the goals, the talking points, right here at FF247 Live Match Chat, an interactive chat which encourages you to keep involved and share your thoughts and emotions as the matches take place.
Good luck!
Finally England knocked out of the world cup in their first tough match after enjoying PAN, TUN, toothless COL, SWE etc. This would have happened earlier itself. Croatia was much better team.
People might differ, but I do not rate England’s performance in this world cup great….Couple of set-piece goals…thats it. Other than Pickford and Trippier, none played well……all players probably were <50-60% of their club performance level especially in the attack….no creativity in midfield…….yesterday at some point I felt like MCI-WBA match is going on……11 shots Eng. tried (compared to Croatia's 23) and 1 was on target which went in……..and still Kane will probably take the boot…unless Lukaku scores a hatty against him…..ENG team looked exactly liked SPURS without Eriksen.
Time for England to develop some creating midfielders…area to strengthen.
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